Just a week ago, they scored 70 something in like 5 games. It's a long season, teams go into peaks and valleys all the time.

So what's so different now than then? How many runs a team scores from game to game really is an independent proposition. There's no reason you have to have valleys this deep even if you also have really high peaks.

"Jason [Marquis] looked to first base, but there is nothing Wally Bell can do because Laz Diaz emphatically said 'Ball!'" Is that why Bell gave the "safe" signal literally seconds before you said that?

Or, even, better: "It's interesting, even though he's right-handed and maybe has more power, Camberon Maybin is almost the Nationals' version of Nyjer Morgan..." Erm, wouldn't that make him nothing like Morgan?